CONYERS – Bug lovers and insect fanatics will have a chance to indulge their passion for arthropods at an annual event held in celebration of the tiny, yet powerful creatures. For the ninth year running, the Rockdale County Insectival will feature bugs that are native...

Jen Young’s dream was to be an elementary school teacher. He took a part time job at the World of Wonders Science Museum to work with birthday parties. When the teaching position of educational program coordinator opened up, he went for it. “I fell in love with the...

he first time Tim Herbute ate a bug, it wasn’t the most voluntary experience. He remembers being younger, on a camping trip, when a friend instigated him to eat a cricket. He did – he says he’s always been open minded. These days, the 21-year-old...

Philip Miller’s fifth and sixth grade class from St. Paul’s Lutheran School thought they were going on a snowshoeing field trip. Turns out there wasn’t enough snow at the South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks Outdoor Campus West in Rapid City on Wednesday, so the class...

Insects are closer to your table than you think. Well, hardly anyone. But today, there’s plenty of us that are popping nigiri 3+ times a week. What was it that coaxed a hesitant public to consider going raw? Some say it was Ichiro Mashita’s California Roll that made...

The Explorers Club on East 70th Street is known for its affiliation with the first moon landing and the first summit of Mount Everest. But, more recently, the club launched an expedition of a different nature. At “Crickets and Cocktails,” an event co-hosted by...

Emily Anthes braves locusts, beetles, mealworms and more as she asks whether eating insects is the answer to feeding ever more humans and livestock. At first my meal seems familiar, like countless other dishes I’ve eaten at Asian restaurants. A swirl of noodles...

An Australian man made national news recently and was dubbed “Ant Man” after surviving for almost a week in the unforgiving outback by eating ants—something he had seen survival expert Bear Grylls do on television. While such a tale is unusual, entomophagy or the...

Meet the chef at Britain’s first full-time bug restaurant It’s Saturday night. Up for taking your date out for a huge meal of worms, crickets, and spiders? No? What if the menu looks less foreign than you expect, offering bug burgers with gourmet dips or cricket...

Insects are lower impact and could replace meat in the American diet, but what do the veggies think? Last week I wrote about how I ate crickets for the first time during a recent trip to Mexico City, calling insects the “next protein source.” Of course...

Bugs could replace meat, but would you eat them? When I was in Mexico City a few months ago, I ordered some guacamole with a twist; sprinkled on top of the avocado-rich treat were some roasted, salted chapulines (that’s Spanish for crickets). Though I’ve...

If the ultimate goal of a vegan is to reduce the harm done to animals, an exclusively plant-based diet isn’t the answer. Until very recently the idea of eating insects was taboo for most first-world consumers. But that’s beginning to change. In fact, if media exposure...

There is a rational, even persuasive, argument for voluntarily eating insects: Bugs are high in protein, require less space to grow and offer a more environmentally friendly alternative to the vertebrates we Westerners prefer, advocates of the bug fare say. However,...

We can all save the planet by eating bugs instead of meat. But test it on your dog, first. We should probably all be eating bugs. Insects have as much protein—and more vitamins and minerals—than beef or chicken, and a bug farm takes a fraction of the resources of say,...

The idea may be hard to swallow, but crickets and mealworms will likely be part of our sustainable food future In the Mexican state of Oaxaca, crispy, chili-spiced chapulines (grasshoppers) are a common bar snack. Bee and wasp larvae are part of the indigenous...

The metric system, universal healthcare, soccer, the music of David Hasselhoff—some things have a harder time catching on in the United States. But that hasn’t dissuaded the United Nations from urging us to develop a taste for 1,900 species of edible insects that are...